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By Star-Bulletin Staff

Friday, April 20, 2001

Program aims for more care of osteoporosis

The Hawaii Osteoporosis Foundation is starting a yearlong program on Oahu to improve treatment rates for the disease.

A large number of women with severe osteoporosis are not being treated, according to recent studies in Hawaii and on the mainland.

Women with hip or wrist fractures receive care for the fracture, but only 20 percent receive osteoporosis medications to prevent future fractures, the studies show.

Women who have had a fracture are at high risk for more fractures, says Dr. Richard Wasnich, Hawaii Osteoporosis Foundation president.

To improve treatment rates, the foundation is offering free evaluations to any woman who has had a fracture after age 45.

Evaluations are being done at various locations on Oahu and include bone density testing, physical interpretation and free information sessions.

The services are provided with support from Meadow Gold, Longs Drug Stores and Radiant Research-Honolulu.

For an appointment or more information, call 441-6327.

Make-A-Wish foundation gets more than $37,000

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Hawaii has received several thousand dollars in grants and gifts to grant wishes of island children fighting life-threatening illnesses.

The Harry & Jeannette Weinberg Foundation donated $6,758; Charles Schwab & Co., $6,000; Jeweler's Charity Fund for Children, $5,250; Hung Wo & Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation, $5,000; the Frear Eleemosynary Trust, $5,000; Christopher & Tara Naeole, $5,000; James Haruji Tamura and Fumiko Tamura Foundation, $4,500.

City Hall hosts award-winning student art

The 2001 Kaha Ki'i ("artistic discovery") Congressional Art Competition awards reception tomorrow at Honolulu Hale has been canceled. However, the top three winning entries in each category will be on display at Honolulu Hale's Lane Gallery next week.

More than 130 students from 14 public and private schools in the First Congressional District participated. All entries can be viewed on a Web exhibit at www.ksbe.edu/artcompetition.

Lisa Wong, a senior at Iolani School, won the Best of Show award. She received a $10,000 scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and $200 in cash and will travel to Washington, D.C., in June to attend the National Arts Reception.

She also won first place in the two-dimensional category for her oil painting.

Other first-place winners include Avelina Kuhaulua, Kamehameha Schools, photography; Louise Torres, Kamehameha Schools, computer art; and Justin Azama, Iolani School, three-dimensional sculpture.

Corrections and clarifications

>> The state cigarette tax is 5 cents a cigarette, not 5 cents a pack as stated in Wednesday's Kokua Line, according to the state Department of Taxation. The assessment for the tax stamp that is now required to be affixed to the bottom of each pack is $1, plus a fee that is less than a penny to help run the stamp program, a spokeswoman said.

>> Our Lady of Perpetual Hope students will sign copies of "God's Photo Album" tomorrow at the following locations. An article yesterday gave the wrong day:
8 to 10 a.m. -- Logos, Ward Warehouse; Mililani Town Center
8 to 9 a.m. -- Reception at Waldenbooks Ala Moana with book signings at Center Stage from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
9 to 11:30 a.m. -- Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall
10 a.m. to noon -- Waldenbooks Windward Mall
Noon to 4 p.m. -- Borders Waikele
2 to 4 p.m. -- Borders Ward Centre, Waldenbooks Pearlridge, Bookends in Kailua
7:30 to 9 p.m. -- Airport Bestsellers

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Publisher and Editor in Chief John Flanagan at 529-4748 or email him at jflanagan@starbulletin.com.

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By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

Police investigating Maui pipe bombs

WAILUKU >> Two PVC pipe bombs found in the Wailuku industrial area were "the real deal," Army Capt. Derek Hileman said yesterday.

Maui police were investigating the source of the bombs, found by a woman at Alua Street at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The devices were described as 5 inches long, with caps on each side and fuses. Hileman said the bombs were disposed of at the police pistol range at Ukumehame in west Maui.

Hilo man dies in two-car crash; second driver hurt

HILO >> A two-car accident on Saddle Road killed one driver and injured the other yesterday, authorities said.

The dead man was identified as Cal Goulette, 44, of Hilo. The other driver, Steffen Erler, 50, of West Mulkiteo, Wash., was listed in stable condition at Hilo Hospital.

Erler was headed toward Hilo in a rented Nissan when he crossed the center line two miles east of the intersection of Saddle Road and Mauna Kea Access Road, hitting Goulette's Ford Escort, police said.

Clean Sweep

FL MORRIS / STAR-BULLETIN
Honolulu police officers and firefighters swept up absorbent that
had been applied yesterday to soak up a spill of an unknown
substance on the road at the intersection of Queen and Cooke
streets. The oily substance was not deemed a danger.

5 arrested for cutting koa on Kauai without permit

LIHUE >> Five Kauai men have been arrested for cutting koa trees on state land without a permit. More than 50 logs have been recovered. Gary Moniz, chief of the state Division of Conservation and Resource Enforcement, said two were arrested April 1. Three others were arrested April 3. All have been released pending further investigation.